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Please e-mail questions to <b>johnrlott@crimeresearch.org.</b>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (John Lott)Blogger13401125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-9205601884904540954Thu, 19 Apr 2018 07:41:00 +00002018-04-19T03:41:01.199-04:00impeachment push against TrumpTrump impeachment will be significant campaign issue for Democrats in the 2018 midterms<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I wouldn't think that Democrats would want to run on this issue, but the Democratic primaries are going to put a lot of Democrats on the record supporting this idea.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">From Fox News:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/10/california-billionaire-steyers-candidate-guide-pushes-impeachment-as-good-politics-for-midterms.html">Billionaire liberal activist Tom Steyer’s “Need to Impeach” campaign sent out guides to more than 5,100 Democratic candidates across the country just two weeks before the first</a> of a&nbsp;<a href="https://nextgenamerica.org/press/nextgen-america-hold-keeping-candidates-youthvote-events-democratic-candidates-across-country/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 198, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background, 0.25s, ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">dozen Democratic primary debates</a>&nbsp;his group, NextGen America, is bankrolling.&nbsp;</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">While NextGen and Need to Impeach are separate entities, the timing indicates the California billionaire and political activist hopes ousting President Donald Trump before the end of his term will be a significant campaign issue in the 2018 midterms.&nbsp;</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Tom’s impeachment campaign is run out of Need to Impeach, which is a separate entity,” NextGen America spokeswoman Aleigha Cavalier&nbsp;told Fox News. “The topics of the debate will be on issues that matter to young people — which can definitely include impeachment — but that’s not the focus.” . . .</span></blockquote></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2018/04/trump-impeachment-will-be-significant.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-5093824102634306948Thu, 19 Apr 2018 07:34:00 +00002018-04-19T03:34:56.171-04:00IllegalAliensEven in California: "overwhelming majority of Californians want to deport more illegal immigrants"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The University of California at Berkeley's&nbsp;Haas Institute has a poll that on some issues will shock a lot of Democrats in the state.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">--&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">"<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/19/most-californians-back-more-deportations-nearly-half-support-travel-ban-survey-finds.html">59% find it important to increase deportations of those here without documentation.</a>"</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">-- "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">nearly 40 percent don't want to limit law enforcement cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, according to the survey."</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">On the other hand.</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Nearly 80 percent, however, support a pathway to citizenship for so-called DREAMers, and "67% think undocumented immigrants should be able to purchase health insurance on the California state exchange."</span></blockquote></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2018/04/even-in-california-overwhelming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-8391012684467331276Fri, 13 Apr 2018 20:21:00 +00002018-04-13T16:21:46.889-04:00Andrew McCabeDOJFBICopy (pdf) of Dept of Justice Inspector General Report on Andrew McCabe and why he was fired<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">A pdf of the DOJ Inspector General Report is <a href="https://crimeresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/DOJ-OIG-mccabe-report.pdf"><b>available here</b></a>. &nbsp;A summary at the beginning of the report has this information.<br /> <br /><div class="page" title="Page 4"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">. . . <a href="https://crimeresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/DOJ-OIG-mccabe-report.pdf">This misconduct report addresses the accuracy of statements made by then- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to the FBI’s Inspection Division (INSD) and the Department of Justice (Department or DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concerning the disclosure of certain law enforcement sensitive information to reporter Devlin Barrett that was published online in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on October 30, 2016, in an article entitled “FBI in Internal Feud Over Hillary Clinton Probe.”</a> A print version of the article was published in the WSJ on Monday, October 31, 2016, in an article entitled “FBI, Justice Feud in Clinton Probe.”<br /> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">This investigation was initially opened by INSD to determine whether the information published by the WSJ in the October 30 article was an unauthorized leak and, if so, who was the source of the leak. On August 31, 2017, the OIG opened an investigation of McCabe following INSD’s referral of its matter to the OIG after INSD became concerned that McCabe may have lacked candor when questioned by INSD agents about his role in the disclosure to the WSJ. Shortly before that INSD referral, as part of its ongoing Review of Allegations Regarding Various Actions by the Department and the FBI in Advance of the 2016 Election, the OIG identified FBI text messages by McCabe’s then-Special Counsel (“Special Counsel”) that reflected that she and the then-Assistant Director for Public Affairs (“AD/OPA”) had been in contact with Barrett on October 27 and 28, 2016, and the OIG began to review the involvement of McCabe, Special Counsel, and AD/OPA in the disclosure of information to the WSJ in connection with the October 30 article. . . .&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">we found that in late October 2016, McCabe authorized Special Counsel and AD/OPA to discuss with Barrett issues related to the FBI’s Clinton Foundation investigation (CF Investigation). In particular, McCabe authorized Special Counsel and AD/OPA to disclose to Barrett the contents of a telephone call that had occurred on August 12, 2016, between McCabe and the then-Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General (“PADAG”). Among the purposes of the disclosure was to rebut a narrative that had been developing following a story in the WSJ on October 23, 2016, that questioned McCabe’s impartiality in overseeing FBI investigations involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and claimed that McCabe had ordered the termination of the CF Investigation due to Department of Justice pressure. The disclosure to the WSJ effectively confirmed the existence of the CF Investigation, which then-FBI Director Comey had&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt;">previously refused to do. The account of the August 12 McCabe-PADAG call, and other information regarding the handling of the CF </span>Investigation,<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt;"> was included in the October 30 WSJ article.</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">We found that, in a conversation with then-Director Comey shortly after the WSJ article was published, McCabe lacked candor when he told Comey, or made statements that led Comey to believe, that McCabe had not authorized the disclosure and did not know who did. This conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.5 (Lack of Candor – No Oath).<br /> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">We also found that on May 9, 2017, when questioned under oath by FBI agents from INSD, McCabe lacked candor when he told the agents that he had not authorized the disclosure to the WSJ and did not know who did. This conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.6 (Lack of Candor – Under Oath). </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">We further found that on July 28, 2017, when questioned under oath by the OIG in a recorded interview, McCabe lacked candor when he stated: (a) that he was not aware of Special Counsel having been authorized to speak to reporters around October 30 and (b) that, because he was not in Washington, D.C., on October 27 and 28, 2016, he was unable to say where Special Counsel was or what she was doing at that time. This conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.6 (Lack of Candor – Under Oath).<br /> </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">We additionally found that on November 29, 2017, when questioned under oath by the OIG in a recorded interview during which he contradicted his prior statements by acknowledging that he had authorized the disclosure to the WSJ, McCabe lacked candor when he: (a) stated that he told Comey on October 31, 2016, that he had authorized the disclosure to the WSJ; (b) denied telling INSD agents on May 9 that he had not authorized the disclosure to the WSJ about the PADAG call; and (c) asserted that INSD’s questioning of him on May 9 about the October 30 WSJ article occurred at the end of an unrelated meeting when one of the INSD agents pulled him aside and asked him one or two questions about the article. This conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.6 (Lack of Candor – Under Oath). . . .</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">we concluded that McCabe’s decision to confirm the existence of the CF Investigation through an anonymously sourced quote, recounting the content of a phone call with a senior Department official in a manner designed to advance his personal interests at the expense of Department leadership, was clearly not within the public interest exception. We therefore concluded that McCabe’s disclosure of the existence of an ongoing investigation in this manner violated the FBI’s and the Department’s media policy and constituted misconduct. . . . .</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><br /></span> </div></div></div></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2018/04/copy-pdf-of-dept-of-justice-inspector.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-3115656745261318497Fri, 06 Apr 2018 06:30:00 +00002018-04-06T16:42:28.563-04:00EconomicsSo why is the US Trade Deficit going up?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">From CNBC:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424858;"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/us-trade-deficit-rises.html">The U.S. trade deficit increased to a near 9½-year high in February as both exports and imports rose to record highs</a> . .&nbsp;. .</span>&nbsp;</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424858;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The Commerce Department said on Thursday the trade gap rose 1.6 percent to $57.6 billion. That was the highest level since October 2008 and followed a slightly downwardly revised $56.7 billion shortfall in January. .&nbsp;. .</span></span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #424858;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The recent tax cuts that have made the US a much more attractive place to invest, causing us to run more of a surplus in the capital account (the account that looks at trading of assets between countries). &nbsp;As the US becomes a more attractive place to invest, more money is invested in the US relative to other countries. &nbsp;But that means, if the exchange rate is to remain constant, they will have to run a deficit in the combined goods and services accounts.&nbsp;</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #424858;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424858; font-family: &quot;gotham narrow ssm 4r&quot; , &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2018/04/so-why-has-us-trade-deficit-going-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-8024282360944828060Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:34:00 +00002018-04-04T20:34:58.449-04:00GunControl200,000, not 800,000, attended "March for Our Lives" event<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">CBS notes:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/march-for-our-lives-crowd-size-estimated-200000-people-attended-d-c-march/">More than 200,000 people attended the&nbsp;March for Our Lives&nbsp;demonstration in Washington D.C. on Saturday</a>, according to&nbsp;<a href="https://airphotoslive.com/" style="color: #b12124; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Digital Design &amp; Imaging Service Inc</a>&nbsp;(DDIS). The Virginia-based firm uses a proprietary method for calculating crowd size using aerial photos&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The peak crowd size was 202,796 people, with a margin of error of 15 percent, the firm said. The crowd reached its largest size at 1 p.m., according to the company's estimates. . . .</blockquote></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2018/04/200000-not-800000-attended-march-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-1060538278859520263Sun, 01 Apr 2018 02:36:00 +00002018-03-31T22:36:11.065-04:00pseudonymProminent gun control advocate David Hogg uses screen name davisgreen111<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">David Hogg's Twitter account is&nbsp;@davidhogg111, so possibly it isn't too surprising that he has set up a Reddit account with the name&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/davisgreen111" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: purple; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; word-break: break-all;">davisgreen111</a>. &nbsp;The point of this pseudonym seems to be to get advice on how Hogg could reach and influence more people.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://bluntforcetruth.com/news/exclusive-blp-confirms-david-hoggs-anonymous-reddit-account/">On Wednesday, the /pol/ board on 4chan speculated that they had found an anonymous Reddit account</a> called&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/davisgreen111" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: purple; word-break: break-all;">davisgreen111</a>&nbsp;that belonged to David Hogg.&nbsp;Today,&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Big League Politics</span>&nbsp;has exclusively confirmed that davisgreen111 is David Hogg.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The most popular post on the davisgreen111 Reddit account is a link to David Hogg’s lifeguard confrontation video, which many are familiar with. It was the video that originally caused speculation that Hogg actually lived in Redondo Beach, CA, and not Florida .&nbsp;. . .&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: white;">It appears that Hogg was looking for advice on how to best display his name, which flashes across the beginning of video . . . .</span></blockquote>Will anyone care that he was using this pseudonym?&nbsp;</div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2018/03/prominent-gun-control-advocate-david.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-4203731444746294361Tue, 20 Mar 2018 02:17:00 +00002018-03-19T22:17:36.909-04:00GunFreeZoneAccurate comic by Branco on Gun Free Zones<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GdrU-3Dw1x8/WrBu6_AkP8I/AAAAAAAAKS0/Xy2e6k1g3TcyAWb7zb2aIbiTRPQ9b_jUACLcBGAs/s1600/DYlYES5WsAAGV7Z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="600" height="285" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GdrU-3Dw1x8/WrBu6_AkP8I/AAAAAAAAKS0/Xy2e6k1g3TcyAWb7zb2aIbiTRPQ9b_jUACLcBGAs/s400/DYlYES5WsAAGV7Z.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2018/03/accurate-comic-by-branco-on-gun-free.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-9069142575211519659Wed, 14 Mar 2018 21:36:00 +00002018-03-14T17:36:39.131-04:00Academia86% of university presidents cited the "perception of liberal political bias" was responsible for declining public support<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">86% of university presidents cited the "<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/survey/survey-college-presidents-finds-worry-about-public-attitudes-confidence-finances">perception of liberal political bias</a>" was responsible for declining public support (31 percent said it was "very" responsible).<br />My problem is it isn't just the "perception." It is their real bias.<br /><br /></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2018/03/86-of-university-presidents-cited.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-4325679474509321386Sun, 11 Feb 2018 17:03:00 +00002018-02-11T20:04:48.983-05:00billclintonHillary Clinton CorruptionRemember Filegate? Where the Clinton's promised everyone that they had only accidentally been looking through FBI files on Republicans?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">From William Safire:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/23/opinion/essay-unclosed-filegate.html">Remember ''Filegate''? Three years ago we learned that the White House had been regularly pulling the files from the F.B.I. on hundreds of Republicans -- ostensibly for security clearance, but including hundreds of former Reagan and Bush appointees never being considered for jobs.</a>&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Even Clinton partisans shuddered at shades of an ''enemies list.'' White House spokesmen dismissed it as a ''bureaucratic snafu,'' caused by a Secret Service that couldn't keep its lists straight.&nbsp;</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Suspicion fell on D. Craig Livingstone, a Democratic advance man unqualified for his sensitive security post. Because some Clinton appointees had drug problems in their pasts, White House operatives may have felt that a supply of political mud was needed to drive off potential critics.&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The F.B.I. admitted wrongdoing in being so complaisant, apologized and said it would never again ship files over without proper paperwork. But it was obviously not qualified to investigate White House abuse of its files; Janet Reno asked for independent counsel, and the matter was assigned to Ken Starr, who had an organization up and running. . . .</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Now we supposedly have 4 sources of information used by FBI to launch spying on Trump during the election. The Hill newspaper's John Solomon claims: "<a href="https://t.co/jp8prI0mHH">All 4 Dossiers Used to Launch the FBI Investigation Against Trump Will Trace Back to the Clintons.</a>" </span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; letter-spacing: 0.27000001072883606px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">All this makes one wonder what the Clintons did with all that earlier information.</span></span></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2018/02/remember-filegate-where-clintons.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-1236922013755960622Fri, 09 Feb 2018 23:18:00 +00002018-02-09T18:18:00.807-05:00IllegalAliensNew York City Police ignore 1,526 ICE detainers for criminals<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">From Fox News:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/08/nypd-ignored-more-than-1500-federal-requests-to-detain-immigrants-last-year-official-says.html">New York City police ignored all 1,526 requests from federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain undocumented immigrants for up to 48 hours last year, a top NYPD official said Wednesday.</a> &nbsp;. . .&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The number of requests for 2017 was nearly 20 times higher than the 80 the department received over the previous year.&nbsp;Chernyavsky said the department responded to just two of ICE's 2016 requests because those immigrants had federal arrest warrants. &nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><iframe frameborder="0" height="1" id="google_ads_iframe_/4145/fnc/us_1" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="google_ads_iframe_/4145/fnc/us_1" scrolling="no" style="border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; height: 1px !important; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 1px !important;" title="3rd party ad content" width="1"></iframe><br />Under New York City law, prisoners can only be handed over to ICE if they've been convicted of one of 170 crimes and federal officials present a warrant. . . .</blockquote></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2018/02/new-york-city-police-ignore-1526-ice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-6564801291676813125Fri, 09 Feb 2018 19:04:00 +00002018-02-09T14:13:15.765-05:00AlGoreGlobalWarmingRemember predictions that higher sea levels were causing islands to disappear?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>Smithsonian in 2004: "<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/will-tuvalu-disappear-beneath-the-sea-180940704/">Global warming threatens to swamp a small island nation</a>"</b><br /><b>PBS 2005: "</b><a href="http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2005/12/tuvalu_that_sin_1.html"><span style="color: #921212; font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot;, &quot;ms trebuchet&quot;, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">Tuvalu: That Sinking Feeling:&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #921212; font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot;, &quot;ms trebuchet&quot;, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Global warming, rising seas</span></a><b>"</b><br /><br />According to PBS all the scientists agreed with this:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">The <i>scientific consensus</i> is that global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions and other "greenhouse gases" is causing rising sea levels around the world. Climate change experts predict that over the next hundred years the sea level, on average, will rise between six inches and three feet.<br />If so, Tuvalu is doomed, and many coastal areas around the world will be submerged.<br />Which is why the 9,000 inhabitants of Tuvalu have become this century's version of the canaries in the coal mines, and why FRONTLINE/World reporter Elizabeth Pollock ventured to these remote coral atolls south of the Equator. Is Tuvalu drowning?<br />On a Fulbright scholarship, Pollock spent a year in the South Pacific, making a documentary with her husband about the effects of global warming. . . .</blockquote><b>Now 2018 Phys.org: "'<a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-02-pacific-nation-bigger.html">Sinking' Pacific nation is getting bigger: study</a>"</b><br /><br />Note that because of erosion islands tend to get smaller over time. &nbsp;Unless there is continued volcanic activity, wave action and erosion from rain will cause islands to disappear, yet, this island is getting bigger.<br /><br />In any case, even if island was disappearing because of higher sea levels, wouldn't it&nbsp;have been a lot easier for people to move than change the rest of the world?</div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2018/02/remember-predictions-that-higher-sea.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-4480285982247493644Sat, 03 Feb 2018 04:57:00 +00002018-02-02T23:57:46.232-05:00GunControlmediabiasMedia bias on NBC's Chicago PD: telling permit holder threatened by gang members to leave his gun at home, when he doesn't he is killed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowFullScreen='true' webkitallowfullscreen='true' mozallowfullscreen='true' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw-6sokPrnF0OHPGglx8jKThcQYWeSGgoE3OwJSAfEYi-O_KyEcPGndku2b68SSY876aASBNvpL0b8' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' FRAMEBORDER='0' /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowFullScreen='true' webkitallowfullscreen='true' mozallowfullscreen='true' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz6ePgIC25Y5Ugfuo0L3P7_kzk-AUKcKmuz7ArIjS88ZZcD4UIElcLw-1sFVJUDfTfEpE7V1IG1ig' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' FRAMEBORDER='0' /></div><br />NBC's shows real bias when they have a segment on this small business owner having a concealed handgun permit holder. With gang members threatening the small business owner, the police officer tells the permit holder to leave his gun at home. &nbsp;The small business owner doesn't follow instructions and he is killed by the gang members. &nbsp;The last part of the segment focuses on the permit holder's gun laying next to his dead body.</div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2018/02/media-bias-on-nbcs-chicago-pd-telling.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-6458576696759127065Thu, 01 Feb 2018 18:48:00 +00002018-02-01T13:49:17.011-05:00Donald TrumpEconomicsRegulationHow stocks prices around the world soared after Trump's election on November 8, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">People know how US&nbsp;stock prices soared immediately after President Trump was elected. &nbsp;That is easy to explain because of the prospects of lower taxes and regulatory reform. &nbsp;But more amazing is how stock prices around the world increased at the same time. &nbsp;So many think that economics is a zero-sum&nbsp;game. &nbsp;That was is good for the US is bad for the rest of the world. &nbsp;And, surely, lower taxes in the US will increase investment in the US at the expense of what happens in other countries. &nbsp;But fewer regulations and lower taxes in the US have apparently meant a&nbsp;more productive world economy.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Click on figure to enlarge it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TSYQBygYShw/WnNe4bED_YI/AAAAAAAAKQo/1hVnazk8jSsVf9nvSG6PHEhImKcujMq9QCLcBGAs/s1600/DJIA%2Bv%2BWorld%2BStock%2BIndex.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="903" height="278" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TSYQBygYShw/WnNe4bED_YI/AAAAAAAAKQo/1hVnazk8jSsVf9nvSG6PHEhImKcujMq9QCLcBGAs/s400/DJIA%2Bv%2BWorld%2BStock%2BIndex.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2018/02/how-stocks-prices-around-world-soared.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-3839130551943683427Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:01:00 +00002018-01-23T14:01:37.749-05:00FederalBudgetIllegalAliensMedia calls Democrats out for budget shutdown failure<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" border="0" height="338" src="https://share.grabien.com/share.php?id=320317&amp;userid=3277&amp;playercolor=black&amp;playersize=600&amp;code=ee8158d8f3b2e6dd5cea7e9b0e1940ab" style="border: 0px; height: 338px; width: 600px;" width="600"></iframe></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2018/01/media-calls-democrats-out-for-budget.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-1042021565281854567Fri, 29 Dec 2017 12:00:00 +00002017-12-29T07:00:20.848-05:00obamacare enrollmentObamacare enrollment down from 9.2 million last year to 8.7 million this year<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Apparently not everyone is so thrilled by the system. &nbsp;Note that this also just provides further evidence about how poorly the government is at predicting enrollment in the system. &nbsp;From the Washington Times:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/28/healthcaregov-signups-dip-due-late-cancellations/">The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services now says about 8.7 million people booked coverage on the federal website through Saturday, a drop from the roughly 8.8 million signups it reported last week, after the enrollment period officially closed on Dec. 15.</a>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The tally fell short of the 9.2 million who used HealthCare.gov last year, though Obamacare supporters cheered the numbers as a strong showing in the face of President Trump’s antipathy toward the law.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Officials said the updated total for 2018 reflects the share of people who either canceled their plan selections at the last minute or dropped coverage after they were automatically enrolled for 2018. . . .</blockquote></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/12/obamacare-enrollment-down-from-92.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-3973960238989980356Thu, 28 Dec 2017 22:14:00 +00002017-12-28T17:14:51.909-05:002018 electionNewt Gingrich says that Republicans will win big at the polls this next November<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">If Newt is right, he has a chance to make a lot of money in the betting odds markets.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/28/newt-gingrich-the-stage-is-being-set-for-gop-lands/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTWpjeFlXVmtaV0UxT1ROaiIsInQiOiJcL09UUlYybVdDY1lxOTduMmd2NTNGV3Jnb0RZZjZIcTloT0hlNHFUTFNrYkJlUVpnTXBTYmhyanhKYmxseXZXeWxaK2JzbkdJTStaWFRNV1RPU0s1UVB6cll6MHpTZVN4RGs5Snd3M0VIRnNhOXFPd1Q3XC9zR3NSbkNvbWNVQyt6In0%3D">Newt Gingrich&nbsp;said Thursday that Democrats are headed for a major political upset in 2018, mostly due to the mainstream media’s dishonesty and the party’s inability to learn from its own mistakes.</a>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/28/newt-gingrich-the-stage-is-being-set-for-gop-lands/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTWpjeFlXVmtaV0UxT1ROaiIsInQiOiJcL09UUlYybVdDY1lxOTduMmd2NTNGV3Jnb0RZZjZIcTloT0hlNHFUTFNrYkJlUVpnTXBTYmhyanhKYmxseXZXeWxaK2JzbkdJTStaWFRNV1RPU0s1UVB6cll6MHpTZVN4RGs5Snd3M0VIRnNhOXFPd1Q3XC9zR3NSbkNvbWNVQyt6In0%3D"></a>“The great political surprise of 2018 will be the size of the Republican victory,” the former Republican House Speaker wrote in a&nbsp;column&nbsp;for Fox News. “After members of the elite media have spent two years savaging President Trump, lying about Republican legislation, and reassuring themselves that Republican defeat was inevitable, the size of the&nbsp;GOP&nbsp;victory in 2018 will be an enormous shock.”&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Mr. Gingrich&nbsp;said the most glaring example of “fake news” is the media’s handling of the&nbsp;GOP’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which he said will be “the 2018 proving ground of media liberal bias and dishonesty.”&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">“First, the media lied about the tax bill in an effort to convince most Americans their taxes would go up,” he wrote. “Then, the media took surveys of people who opposed the&nbsp;GOP&nbsp;bill based on the false information supplied by the media. Then, the media talked again and again about how unpopular the Republican plan was and how it was going to weaken Republican candidates in 2018. Then, the bill passed, and unsurprisingly, it turned out to be dramatically better for Americans than the elite media had described.” . . .</blockquote>The rest of the article is <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/28/newt-gingrich-the-stage-is-being-set-for-gop-lands/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTWpjeFlXVmtaV0UxT1ROaiIsInQiOiJcL09UUlYybVdDY1lxOTduMmd2NTNGV3Jnb0RZZjZIcTloT0hlNHFUTFNrYkJlUVpnTXBTYmhyanhKYmxseXZXeWxaK2JzbkdJTStaWFRNV1RPU0s1UVB6cll6MHpTZVN4RGs5Snd3M0VIRnNhOXFPd1Q3XC9zR3NSbkNvbWNVQyt6In0%3D">available here</a>.&nbsp;</div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/12/newt-gingrich-says-that-republicans.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-587660431194393691Thu, 28 Dec 2017 22:10:00 +00002017-12-28T17:10:22.780-05:002018 electionVoteFraud2Democrat voter registration totals declining in key states<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I have seen an earlier story on Colorado, but this story in the Washington Times suggests that the phenomenon is more widespread. &nbsp;Is this because states are scrubbing the voter roles? &nbsp;Is it because of the push to reduce vote fraud? &nbsp;Is it changing allegiances? <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">. . . <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/27/democrat-voter-rolls-signal-midterm-election-troub/">The same trend is playing out in Florida, Pennsylvania and other battleground states where Democrats should have been growing their numbers in the age of&nbsp;Mr. Trump, but instead are stumbling.</a>&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">They have lost 12,000 registered Democratic voters in Arizona since the presidential election, bringing the number down to 1.2 million. Republicans have lost just 1,000 voters and stand at nearly 1.4 million in the state. . . .&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">In Pennsylvania, Democrats held a registration edge of about 800,000 over Republicans — 4 million to 3.2 million — as of Dec. 18. But the number of registered Democrats is down 4.5 percent, while Republicans have lost 2.4 percent.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">In Florida, Democrats hold a registration edge, but their ranks also have also dropped at a faster rate.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">As of Oct. 31, the number of registered Florida Democrats dropped 1.9 percent from last year to about 4.8 million. The number of registered Republican voters fell 0.6 percent, to about 4.6 million.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Nevada Republicans, meanwhile, have shaved Democrats’ edge from 119,000 voters in October 2016 to about 98,000 as of Dec. 1.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Former Rep. Thomas M. Davis III, Virginia Republican, said many registered Democrats are transient in nature and the changes might not necessarily be subtractions but shifts elsewhere. . . .</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Democrats in North Carolina lost 3,829 registered voters from February to September. Republicans gained 9,241 and Libertarians gained 1,468, but unaffiliated voters grew by 47,099 registered voters, according to a report from the Civitas Institute, a right-leaning think tank in the state.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">In Nevada, Libertarians gained about 700 voters compared with last year, even as thousands of Democrats and Republicans dropped off the rolls. . . .</span>&nbsp;</blockquote><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 1.6em;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="pagebreak" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #015fb6; font-size: 14px;"></a></div></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/12/democrat-voter-registration-totals.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-3521244350573661910Tue, 19 Dec 2017 04:25:00 +00002017-12-18T23:25:29.205-05:00seasteadingPeter Thiel setting up world's first independent floating nation set for 2020. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fxg4Bvytxv0/WjiTy2OuyII/AAAAAAAAKN8/Kps25qBzqkU_Z0vi_VLtfIVsbfipm8VAwCLcBGAs/s1600/3C3369EB00000578-4127954-image-a-3_1484658113235.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="555" data-original-width="962" height="230" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fxg4Bvytxv0/WjiTy2OuyII/AAAAAAAAKN8/Kps25qBzqkU_Z0vi_VLtfIVsbfipm8VAwCLcBGAs/s400/3C3369EB00000578-4127954-image-a-3_1484658113235.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The UK Daily Mail has some very interesting videos and discussion of what Peter Theil has planned. The article is <b><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5190277/Concept-images-reveal-worlds-floating-nation.html">available here</a></b>.<br /><div class="grammarly-disable-indicator"></div></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/12/peter-thiel-setting-up-worlds-first.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-6838818869501974261Mon, 18 Dec 2017 22:00:00 +00002017-12-18T23:26:18.184-05:00mediabiasTaxesWho does the New York Times claims will benefit the most from the tax reform bill?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k7184l86-0o/Wjg6Rs4M7kI/AAAAAAAAKNs/kkR3cn0vUKQRZQF1Fuyr1HuFMZaK-47fgCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-12-18%2Bat%2B%2BMonday%252C%2BDecember%2B18%252C%2B4.58%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1115" data-original-width="629" height="640" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k7184l86-0o/Wjg6Rs4M7kI/AAAAAAAAKNs/kkR3cn0vUKQRZQF1Fuyr1HuFMZaK-47fgCLcBGAs/s640/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-12-18%2Bat%2B%2BMonday%252C%2BDecember%2B18%252C%2B4.58%2BPM.png" width="361" /></a></div><br />This is from an email that the New York Times sent out to people who had subscribed to its list.<br /><div class="grammarly-disable-indicator"></div></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/12/who-does-new-york-times-claims-will.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-6438607810064639409Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:00:00 +00002017-12-11T07:00:39.761-05:00RadioOn the Justice & Drew radio show to discuss Congress passing concealed handgun reciprocity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Dr. John Lott talked to Justice &amp; Drew on Minnesota's giant 50,000-watt KTLK about Congress' debate over concealed handgun reciprocity. &nbsp;Audio <a href="https://crimeresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/KTLK-Justice-Drew-12062017.m4a">available here</a>.<br /><br />(Wednesday, December 6, 2017, from 9:36 to 9:52 AM)<br /><div><br /></div></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/12/on-justice-drew-radio-show-to-discuss.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-5874028967070058172Sun, 10 Dec 2017 20:00:00 +00002017-12-10T15:00:27.646-05:00On the Gary Nolan Show to discuss the Concealed Handgun Reciprocity Bill before Congress<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Dr. John Lott <a href="https://crimeresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Nolan-john-lott-12-081.mp3">talked</a> to Gary Nolan, which is carried on radio stations throughout Missouri, about the reciprocity bill that passed the House this past Wednesday.<br /><br />(Friday, December 8, 2017, from 12:35 to 12:50 PM)<br /><div class="grammarly-disable-indicator">&nbsp;</div></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/12/on-gary-nolan-show-to-discuss-concealed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-6489105257607026410Sun, 10 Dec 2017 18:41:00 +00002017-12-10T13:41:35.777-05:00Media Bias Fact Check misinformed rating of the CPRC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XG_D0-yMyb4/Wi1_bzTVMTI/AAAAAAAAKNE/V-UcC2aRv9UwO_L1FVnkv_x-sT0E9fJNgCLcBGAs/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-12-10%2Bat%2B%2BSunday%252C%2BDecember%2B10%252C%2B1.39%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="638" height="226" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XG_D0-yMyb4/Wi1_bzTVMTI/AAAAAAAAKNE/V-UcC2aRv9UwO_L1FVnkv_x-sT0E9fJNgCLcBGAs/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-12-10%2Bat%2B%2BSunday%252C%2BDecember%2B10%252C%2B1.39%2BPM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>If people think that this evaluation of the work done by the Crime Prevention Research Center is inaccurate, I hope that they will go to the&nbsp;Media Bias Fact Check and <a href="https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/crime-prevention-research-center/">vote accordingly</a>. &nbsp;Thank you.<br /><div class="grammarly-disable-indicator"></div></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/12/media-bias-fact-check-misinformed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-8118410959401985538Sun, 10 Dec 2017 06:02:00 +00002017-12-10T01:02:37.251-05:00On Rebel TV to discuss Trump gun control policies and the debate over national reciprocity for concealed carry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Dr. John Lott talked to John Cardillo of The Rebel media about the pros and cons of gun bills pending before Congress that address flaws in the NICS background system and would grant national reciprocity for those licensed to carry firearms in a particular state.</div><iframe allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" gesture="media" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3Jc1zKvZ57U" width="560"></iframe></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/12/on-rebel-tv-to-discuss-trump-gun.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-1259629733796178040Mon, 27 Nov 2017 07:38:00 +00002017-11-27T02:38:16.254-05:00TaxesDo you want to see what the House and Senate tax plans will mean for your tax bill? Try this neat calculator<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">If you would like to see what the House and Senate tax plans will mean for your tax bill, try a neat easy to use Tax Plan Calculator. &nbsp;<a href="http://taxplancalculator.com/">Click here</a>.<br /><div class="grammarly-disable-indicator"></div></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/11/do-you-want-to-see-what-house-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10182504.post-4906740552068355162Sun, 26 Nov 2017 19:40:00 +00002017-11-26T14:40:07.102-05:00Please use this link when buy from Amazon on Cyber Monday to Support the Crime Prevention Research Center<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sO6v4H-2QOQ/WhsYan8EDhI/AAAAAAAAKMQ/D9pCDabFiqc4EJ7QHJ0cWzVNAiYKscDnQCLcBGAs/s1600/CPRC%2BLogo%2BSquare.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="533" height="319" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sO6v4H-2QOQ/WhsYan8EDhI/AAAAAAAAKMQ/D9pCDabFiqc4EJ7QHJ0cWzVNAiYKscDnQCLcBGAs/s320/CPRC%2BLogo%2BSquare.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i>Support us when you shop on Cyber Monday. Go to <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/f.html?C=1ISN78MKH9BO5&amp;K=M7IMRWXOOGMH&amp;M=urn:rtn:msg:20171126170843a940aa60ae40484497cb232f1d50p0na&amp;R=9NT9YT64VVQ7&amp;T=C&amp;U=http%3A%2F%2Fsmile.amazon.com%2Fch%2F80-0917179&amp;H=KQCWEAFA1G7DAAG4OTTJVHQDIGCA">smile.amazon.com/ch/80-0917179</a> and Amazon donates to Crime Prevention Research Center.</i><br /><i><br /></i>Your help is greatly appreciated. &nbsp;You can learn more about the CPRC <a href="https://crimeresearch.org/about-us/">here</a> and also <a href="https://crimepreventionresearchcenter.nationbuilder.com/donate">donate directly here</a>.<br /><br />Thank you very much!<br /><div class="grammarly-disable-indicator"></div></div>http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2017/11/please-use-this-link-when-buy-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Lott)0